neighbourhood in Terneuzen
Kern Sluiskil
2,170 residents · postal code 4541 · Part of Kern Sluiskil, Terneuzen
Everything close by, little to spend
Over thirty-one kilometres to the nearest railway station — that is the figure setting Kern Sluiskil apart from almost every other neighbourhood. Amenities still comes out at 6.8, because supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all four within seven hundred metres, and those are the components that weigh heavily. Anyone wanting to travel beyond the village without a car notices nothing of that score.
Property value here is less than half the national median and vacancy more than double it. Together with a narrow high-income bracket and almost three times as many social assistance claims as nationally, that produces a 3.1 for wealth & income — not one component points the other way.
On safety the crime total sits roughly on the national middle, with theft below it and burglary slightly above. The resulting 6.2 is the highest pillar figure after amenities, in a neighbourhood where almost four in ten households consist of one person.
- no. 10,737 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 36 in Terneuzen
How Kern Sluiskil scores
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Is Kern Sluiskil a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Sluiskil comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 63 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Kern Sluiskil looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,588 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kern Sluiskil a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Sluiskil comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Kern Sluiskil?
In Kern Sluiskil the police recorded 63 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Kern Sluiskil calculated?
Kern Sluiskil scores 3.8 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Kern Sluiskil lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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